[kde-guidelines] Styleguide: Check boxes

[Heiko Tietze]

Am Donnerstag, 30. Mai 2013, 14:43:01 schrieb Aurélien Gâteau:
> In general keep the label of the check box to the right of the tick box.
> When using check boxes in a two-column, "$label: $widget" layout, you can
> do the following to keep the layout balanced:
> 
> Group check boxes together in the widget column and add a label describing
> the group in the label column:
> 
> <pre>
> Appearance: [ ] Wrap text
> 
>             [x] Show tooltips
> 
>       Text: [_________]
> 
>      Color: (____)
> </pre>
> 
> - or -
> 
> Make the check boxes span the two columns, but keep them at the bottom of
> the layout:
> 
> <pre>
>    Text: [_________]
> 
>   Color: (____)
> 
>   [ ] Wrap text
> 
>   [x] Show tooltips
> </pre>
> 
> -----------------------------
> 
> Does it make sense?

Well, I have to make my positon about alignment less absolut. ;-)

But two further aspects additonal to the other mail: this tabular layout adds 
a virtual column to the dialog. It looks pretty nice in simple panels but with 
some kind of a navigation sidebar to the left the layout gets fragmented.
More relevant, I'm afraid that this layout will be applied to all dialogs. I 
was just looking though kmail settings and these dialogs have a common 
horizontal layout. And mixing both layouts is really weird.